He hissed softly under his breath at that, eyes narrowing for a moment before he noticed how pitiful she looked. "That wasn't what I meant, I just- They don't expect you to talk," he blurted out, hoping the truth might make her feel better. "They don't know you can talk."
Somehow he'd decided he would shield her from that, if possible. He wasn't sure what they might want to do with her as far as restraints if they knew she was more than just a magical horse, or whatever she was. He thought he might be able to convince them to let him handle her since he'd managed to find her, even if that was just stumbling upon her.
"It's for your own good," he muttered, eyes flickering forward towards the blurry figures gathered around the fire.
The brothers were more than a little skeptical of his sudden appearance, noticing him and the strange, glowing animal. Her horn was the only part that made them believe she was truly a unicorn but all three looked as exhausted as Kynton felt and were eager to accept his word as truth so they could begin the journey home.
Only Nel spared more than a moment's thought for her, the woman's eyes wide with an almost childlike wonder as she studied Belladonna.
"She'll stay with me. I'll watch her tonight," Kynton offered casually, though his shoulders were tense and eyes dilated in anticipation of resistance. None came, though, besides a mumbled "Don't lose her," from Raidin. Without another word he slipped away to the edge of the little camp the others had set up to put as much distance as he could between them all with hopes that it might be far enough for the chatty unicorn to speak with him quietly.
Exhausted from the effort of keeping himself moving Kynton collapsed to sit among the brush almost dreading the cold that he knew eventually came from stillness and sleep. With a few suggestive glances between Bella and the space beside him he reached out to pat at the ground hoping she would bed down without fuss.